Cigarette case



March 2 l926.

' 1,575,420 I. EISENSTARK ETAL cmmmrs CASE Filed July 14. 1924 ATTORNEYPatented Mar. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,575,420 ATENT OFFICE.

' IsADoEE EISENSTARK AND BERNARD Lrrs'rrrrz, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CIGARETTE cAsE.

Application filed July 14, 1924. Serial No. 725,771.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISADORE EISENSTARK and BERNARD LIP'SHITZ, citizensof the United States, and residents of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cigarette Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cigarette cases. Its object is to makeacompact, leather cigarette case having two cigarette holdingcompartments spaced apart by a straight, flat, taut and non-wrinklingpartition of flexible material, the non-wrinkling and othercharacteristics of the partition serving to prevent breaking ofcigarettes in the compartment at either side thereof; the case havingsemi-rigid, permanently swelled out back and front sides which serve tominimize danger of breaking of contained cigarettes, and the swelled outfront and back sides being stretched in swelled out position to hold thepartition fiat and straight and to keep it from wrinkling.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof and illustrating theinvention,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the case with its folding cover flap openand cigarettes in place.

Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the case at line 2-2 of Fig. 1 showing theouter or back and front walls of the case and the par-- tition, and tworows of cigarettes, one in each compartment.

Fig. 3 is a flat plan view of the case in process, its folding coverflap being shown Open.

Fig. dis a transverse central section of what is shown in Fig. 3 at line4-4: of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view of the structure shown in Fig. 3 assembled with aduplex, hot-mold having a pair of rigid molding tongues provided withparallel, rigidly spaced apart, partition engaging faces.

Fig. 6 is a sectional View of the structure shown in Fig. 5 at line 66of Fig. 5.

In the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate the completed case which ismade up of a leather back piece 1 having. an integral, folding coverflap 2; a front piece 3 provided preferably with a cross loop 4 forholding the free end of the folding cover flap in covering position overthe open, upper portion of the case; and a fiat, straight taut,non-wrinkling partition 5 preferably of leather, but which may be of anyother suitable, sewable material. Partition ,5 separates the case intotwo pockets or compartments each for a row of closely fitted cigarettesX, the upper ends of which are exposed for access at both sides of thepartition and at the mouth of the case under.

the bend of the foldable cover flap.

The cover flap 2, which is integral with the back piece, is freelyflexible, but the back piece and the front piece 3 are each swelledoutwardly and permanently shaped as outwardly swelling, semi-rigid casesides and caused to hold the partition in straight, flat,

taut and non-wrinkling condition, as shown,

back and front sides are the samelength,

the opposite end edges of the three plies in the assemblage being flush.The under edge of the partition is free; that is, is not carried. inbetween the bottom, superposed margins of the back andfront pieces.dition the ends of the assemblage are stitched together at Y, wherebythe opposite ends of the partition are marginally secured to the unitedend margins of the assemblage, the line of stitching uniting thedirectly superposed bottom margins of the front and back pieces. In thiscondition the back piece and the front piece lie fiat respectivelyagainst a side of the partition.

In the assemblage indicated in Figs. 3 and 4;, the cover flap receivingloop 4:, which is a preferable form of member for securing the coverflap in closed position, has its end margins superposedly in place, theloop extending lengthwise of the front piece and the ends of the loopbeing stitched in place by the line of stitching Y.

A hot-mold A, usually of brass, and heated when in use, is provided withtwo opposed, stiff molding tongues a the inward faces of which are flatand parallel and form the walls of a partition receiving slot a.' Theouter edges of the tongues are rounded as at a along the bottom and alsoalong their In this con-- nent set of the front and back pieces in theswelled out, compartment forming sides. The tongues are of likedimensions and contour and consequently the compartments arecorrespondingly formed. The heat causes the leather to become set in itsdistended or stretched position and as the front and back sides arestretched outwardly they are lengthened, as indicated in Figs. 1 and '2,so that they hold the partition straight and free of a wrinkledcondition by the'presence of which cigarette wrappers would becomecracked or bro-ken. By the semi-rigid condition of the front and backwalls it is meant that they are permanently and, normally swelled out.It is not meant that they are not compressible each against thepartition. They are selfsustaining in their stretched out, swelled andpermanently set condition.

'So far as we know, our product, indicated method and duplex mold:having rigidly spaced apart, partition embracing walls are severallynew.

By molding the front and back sides simultaneously with the partitionenclosed be tween the fixed, parallel mold surfaces, the partition iskept fiat, straight and taut and the outer walls of the compartments maybe tained in proper relation to the partition to keep two rows ofcigarettes upright, as

indicated in the drawings. The lower, free edge of the partition isindicated by p.

lVhat we claim is:

In the process or" manufacturing leather c-onipartmental cases, theprocess step of mechanically assembling a superimposed, fiatwisecontacting, n'iarginally united, leather back side and leather frontside with an intermediate partition of flexible material; in insertingbetween the partition and each of sa d sides, a. tongued hot-mold havingrigid molding tongues and an inermediate partition receiving slot thefaces of which are parallel; in simultaneously stretching and shapingsaid sides and maintainingthe partition straight, and lengthwisetautcning said partition; and in causing said stretched and shaped sidesto become set by the heat from the hot-mold.

Signed at New York city in the county ot New York and State of NewYorkthis 9th day of June A. D. 1924.

- rsanonn EISENSTARK.

BERNARD LIPSHITZ.

